No doubt it's just a temporary situation, but Alex Zaharov-Reutt can't get into Gmail, and both Down Detector and Tweets say the same thing.

In light of ACMA's report showing that 46% of Australian children aged between 6 and 13 now use a phone, up from 41% in 2015, AMTA's five key suggestions for parents to consider when buying kids their first phones is definitely a good call.

Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that 5G fixed wireless is about to replicate the success of 4G for this application.

"Cloud security does seem to be an issue," according to Trend Micro ANZ technical leader Mick McCluney. It's not that there are any inherent insecurities in cloud computing, but the pace of activity and the differences from conventional IT do cause issues.

Researchers from FireEye and Microsoft claim to have discovered a global intrusion campaign, using the Orion network monitoring system sold by SolarWinds, with a trojan being implanted into a file which was part of updates for the product; the compromised file was given the name SUNBURST. The software runs on Windows.

Organisations that try to implement ERP on their own have a high failure rate according to one vendor. Capturing the value of ERP requires correct implementation says the regional director of Odoo.

American cyber security firm FireEye, which last week said it had suffered a breach and lost its attack tools, says it has identified a global campaign to compromise public and private sector bodies through corruption of software supply chains, using software that runs on Windows.

Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, the Suunto bills its Suunto 7 as "a state-of-the-art smartwatch with adventure-proof GPS sport watch" with a "no-compromise approach to wearable technology", now at $599 at JB Hi-Fi and Suunto's online store.

Automotive services provider Inchcape Australia appears to have been compromised by the Windows Ransomexx ransomware, with the cyber criminals who hit the company leaking some data that they stole, on the dark web. The company has about 1500 employees in Australia.

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